The San Diego Police Department and the San Diego Asian Youth Organization passed out bags of rice to needy families Saturday for the sixth annual Thanksgiving Rice Drive.
The rice was distributed to Burmese refugees from the SDPD Multi-Cultural Community Relations Office on University Avenue.
The Karen people have been fighting a brutal civil war with the Myanmar government for decades.
The refugees, who have finally settled in San Diego, left with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Last year the S.D.A.Y.O. donated nearly 2,500 pounds of rice to more than 56 families and seniors locally.
